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I have a laptop that has been running Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Gentoo-R8 (gentoo |
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sources, don't remember which version) for a while. It has a Broadcom 4306 Rev 2 |
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wireless card that has been working well with that kernel. I extracted the |
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firmware from the broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5 blob a while ago using b43-fwcutter |
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011. I have to hard-code the network settings in /etc/conf.d/net for my home |
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network, but am able to use wpa_supplicant whenever I go elsewhere. (I think |
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it's my home wireless router that causes the issue; probably needs a firmware |
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upgrade.) |
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Any how, I recently upgraded to Linux Kernel 2.6.34 Gentoo-R7 (gentoo-sources |
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2.6.34-r1); again using the b43-legacy driver for the wireless. However, now I |
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can't keep a network connection up. I keep getting errors from the |
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/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 startup - namely: SIOCSIFFLAGS Unknown Error 132. I had to |
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reboot onto the older kernel to write this message and try to research the issue |
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a little. |
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From on-line, some sites suggest the following as a solution: |
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rmmod ath9k |
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rfkill block all |
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rfkill unblock all |
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modprobe ath9k |
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rfkill unblock all |
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however, rfkill seems to only be in testing for gentoo |
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(http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-wireless/rfkill), and I'm using the |
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b43-legacy instead of the ath9k driver - okay, no problem there, just switch out |
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which driver is unloaded and reloaded. Haven't tried it yet as I have to reboot; |
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but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and that's |
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not much of a solution. |
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Further, I can't seem to find a version of b43-fwcutter that will extract any of |
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the b43-legacy firmware - even the one I had successfully extracted (011, 012, |
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13). |
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Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone know if this gets resolved (or made |
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worse) by a newer kernel? |
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Ben |